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SunUp Solution Benefits
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Total
content workflow and lifecycle management streamlines operation
- Automated
content contract compliance reduces workload
- Sophisticated offers
are easy to create and implement
- Automated scheduling / distribution
for turnaround, barker, NVOD, Pay per View
- Asset management for
on-demand services
- Simplifies and unifies operation of CAS, Middleware,
SMS
- Minimizes bandwidth use
The Challenge:
For many Cable Operators, the future seems to hold
an ever-increasing demand for more services, both
Standard Definition and High
Definition, and more on-demand services. Cable services
need new and innovative
marketing and promotions with advanced guide and offer
presentation to attract or retain the attention of subscribers
who increasingly
have more options in video service providers. This added
complexity can make the operation expensive and error-prone at
a time
when costs need to be even more tightly controlled.
The
necessary content and offer management is complex. Content comes
in more forms and formats than ever, with
more and
more complex contracts attached, and is delivered in
more service
offerings
than ever before. Innovative marketing requires the synchronization
of many subsystems in the digital headend. Additionally,
the Cable plant bandwidth is strained and requires intelligent
bandwidth management to cope with the new services.
The Solution:
SunUp's open and modular software
applications streamline and automate content management, ensure
contract enforcement, and
make sophisticated offer management simple. They unify and extend
the capabilities of existing Middleware, VOD and other subsystems
to automate the operational workflow and Content, Service, and
Resource Management needed for turnaround services, in-house originated
services such as Pay Per View and NVOD, VOD, and interactive services.
Content distribution for VOD systems is automated.
Sunup software simplifies scheduling, making it easy to create
the day-parted and virtual channels that increase channel count
without adding bandwidth, and automating bandwidth management.
An open, configurable suite of applications streamline the following
operational tasks:
Key Features:
- Contract Management
- Collects and organized all
content provider contracts
- Manages compliance to contract provider
contracts
- Template-based financial modeling
- Automatic calculation
and posting of provider payments
- Asset Factory
Management
- Manages content ingest
workflow to minimize operational involvement
- Localization workflow
support, including subtitling and alternate languages
- Management
of multi-lingual EPG
- Metadata management and packaging for VOD
- Offer/Entitlement
Management
- Unifies offer management with the DRM, Middleware,
and SMS for EVOD, SVOD, VOD, or multi-product offers
- Tiering and
packaging of broadcast channels
- Complex sports blackout and spot
scenarios
- Entitlement control for Clear-To-Scrambled transitions,
OPPV, IPPV, etc
- Asset Management
- Automated lifecycle management
of content for ingest, distribution, and purging
- Integration with
pitcher/catcher content delivery systems
- Verified content delivery
to remote servers
- Promo content lifecycle management
- Advanced tape
library management including automated bar code generation,
location, and blank stock management
- Scheduling
- Unified and sophisticated scheduling
system for what-if working schedules, multiple views
of On Air schedules, day parting,
record schedules, etc,
- Powerful tools for scheduling of NVOD, series scheduling,
ads, promos and barker channels
- Automated management of last
minute changes
- Integrated control of playout system, EPG, CA,
SMS, and compression system
- Record and time shift management
- Automated import
and localization of EPG of turnaround channel schedules
- Bandwidth
management tools
- Resource Management
- Automated redundancy across
multi-vendor subsystems within a facility
- Automated backup
from facility to facility.
- Exception-based service and content
monitoring
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